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VOLUME XXXVII, NO. 14 DIXON TELLS OF SOUTH S RECOVERY Playwright Recall* Tragic History as U- He Sees Section Developing, and Cites New Problems The marvelous stsory of the rise si the south from out of the ashes, ] kavoc and desolation wrought 1 ohil ar and reconstruction was told < at Greenville, N. C., last week at the 1 astern Carolina exposition by 1 Thomas Dixon, preacher, author and < playwright. His subject was "The ( IHfedng South," and those who heard tho speaker, who is a great orator and ^ a native of this state, were gripped j i uj cue epic story as it was uniolded "to them. ^ "When we recall the history of the south," Mr. Dixon -said, "it is an . astounding fact that the south has 1 rtecm- I never go over the south but 1 - what I am amazed at what I see. I * v ncrrer look at her glorious presence tikat I do not recall her tragic history j. &?d wonder how it has been possible j ilor the south to riae in such glory ^ within the brief period it has been Q accomplished. j, "I look abroad and see the south- , land rising inj glory and beauty. I j ^ aee the wealth and prosperity in a leaps and bounds. I cannot keep back the tears when I see it. "Now you are facing a new prob- E J?aa, and this is what, turned the cur- c Went of my life. Ycu have solved the b problem of your daily bread. Now e ISu have gotten to the place in your E c where you have to face a more tl difficult problem?the pursuit of d happiness, which is a far more duti- b An), difficult and dangerous task si than the struggle for existence, and r withrni the next 35 years you are gofcagr to establish your ideals of life imd character and it is going to beat r' the old hard materialism of the north ?_ atd it is going to be a new ideal. 1 am hoping that when this newly . ?*?en south shall find her "soul that ir h Rhall belong to the dreamer, the 81 visionary? rather than the hard, the old and the materialistic. You are going to establish that ideal. ?The old south knew how to live; 84 k?ew how to play. The old south JJJ loved beauty and they took tiuie to * f ahivate it ,and make it a part' Of \ tfceir lives. That sort of civilization ct produced some wonderful things. You ^ have fallen short in some ways. Be- p lore we can preserve that which is worth-while one of the first things is ^ ho slow do^ii long enough to loarn WiW to live. We have got to get U] back to the heart of nature and learn sl how to play. You have got to listen ty ho the murmur of running water and w ftoel the kiss of the breeze from the. jc ocean on your brow. With the high dpressure of modem Hfe, our fast 1 Qi moving about, our automobiles, we j $] have no time to live. Yon hnvn o-.x* i to stop that sort of life.;v?id pet buck to thi: heart of nature. Now you say, li I am preaching-. We!!, I am. I am Ppreaehing a crusade for a return to P' nature .and the renewal of life | I through the inspiration of nature." c! ????? ei Tu-en ay-five seamen were trapped and burned to death in an explosion P of gasoline 011 the oil tanker Gulf '< of Venezuela in the harbor of Port n Arthur; Texas, Sunday morning Cl Eleven others were injured. The men v set their death in a caldron of boil- s' tog gasoline. The tanker was dock- ^ ad where 85,000 barrels of high test ** gasoline had been pumped into bur the day previous. The men had gone -to sleep in their quarters aft, and * Captain John Charlton was aaleop in a the officers' quarters forward. Thp ^ dock and harbor lay quiet when the j. early morning darkness was rent by ^ an explosion that could be heard for ^ naftes. A pillar of burning gasoline n leaped 100 feet into the air. In a ^ few seconds several sailors in flames ^ appeared on deck and jumped into 0 , the water, their bodies going through || 4 the air like flaming rockets. These t - - v men wore save 1, but were badly f horned. After the fire was brought r under control .attempts were made to ^ Virtue fltA Aiif. Kwf . ashes clinging to a few bones re- ' mined. WOODROW WILSON MEMORIAL < In a letter from Or. A. T. Allen, 5 ;< state superintendent, and state chair- i " man for the Wood row Wilson Birth- t V place Memorial, he says that he wants t --.all the offerings to this fond received t by May 1st. So, by his authority, I t am extending the time for the receiv- 1 iag of the offerings till that date. I 1 feel-sure there are still some who i wish to help in this cause, which will i mean the honoring of one of oar : country's great men. Send check to Mr. G. P. Hagaraan, Boone, N. C. i J. M. DOWVUM, County Chairman. Bert doll Acquitted Grover Cleveland Beigdoll, notori* ous American draft evadcj, was acquitted yesterday at Mosbach, Germany, on charges of seduction and impairing the morals of a minor. The trial lasted seven hours. \ - W-' - V - ; ) . - IATA An independent Fam boon; STATE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD Happening* of latere*! Froaa Al! Section* of North Carolina Briefly ToU E. h. Gibson^ insurance man of Kemersville, Guilford county, was lorribly and fatally injured Thursday when his car was hit by a Southern paassenger train at the Haw River prude crossing. Gibson iied before reaching a hospital at Greensboro. Safes in the office of Ivey's Deoartmenst store, Charlotte, were >lown Sunday and robbed of cash and itamps valued at $8,000. The rob>ors made good their get-away, leavng no clues that would lead to their dentity. Officers investigating the 'obbery said that it was the work of irofessional safecrackers^ Immediate reconstruction of the |umed portions of the state hospital vn unu mrvijit* itt xvaieign wmcii was lestroyed by fire Saturday, has been rdereti. The portion of the buildng, the west wing, housed about 400 timates, ail of whom were removed o safety The loss is estimated at bout half million dollars. C. T. Blakeney, cashier of the 1 lank of Midland, at Midland, Union ounty, was knocked unconscious, his ' ank robbed and set on fire at aln arly hour Thursday morning. Mr. J Uakeney was lying a few feet from he front door in an unconscious conition. When citizens reached the ' ank they found it ablaze on the inide. ' i A family quarrel, said to have < eeii prompted by a drunken father, t isulted in the death of Jim Hayes, c f Kannapoiis, Saturday afternoon, j [is daughter, Iva, aged 19, who fired j le fatal shot, was released on bond j i the sum of 51,000 after u jury, i imraoned by Coroner Hartsell, had I card three witnesses. The shooting i ccurred at the Hayes home m Kan- I a polls, and resulted from threats r dd to have been made by Hayes, ho, it is said, had been drunk since i huraday. t Davidson college is to get the In- c >ir.e on $60,000 for the establish- j lent of tbe "William H. Williamson j rofessorship," a chair of nature, to ? K? ?'? w..cSr, UilUlT pro-I c, sions of the will of William H. Wil-1 a unison, Sr., filed for probate Sat- rday in the office of the clerk of the ] iperior court of Meloklenburg counMr. Williamson, for many years as a leading business man of Raigh and Charlotte. and died several ays ago in Florida. The will dispos; of an estate valued at between *00,000 and $1,000,000. Western North Carolina Repubcans, according to an Asheviile disitch, are discussing four men as ossible successors of Brownlow ickson, who was last week elected lairman of the state Republican excutive committee. The four men eing mentioned for the marshal's ost are Frank Patton, of Morgan>n, assistant United States district ttorney; Charles A. Jonas, of Linolnton; Charles E. Green, of Bakersille, and John Isenhour, former leriff of Catawba county, and Jim lailey, of Asheviile, now a deputy larshal. As a result of a row with his wife, ho accused him of being intimate rith another woman, Ed Honeycutt, large land owner of Union county, ras shot and killed hv his son. Will [oneycutt, Monday night. It seems lat Honeycutt and his wife engaged 1 a quarrel when Mrs. Honeycutt jade accusations against him. He nocked her down and kicked her. it ( i said. The dead man sent hia sec- J nd son to ask Will Honeycutt, who ved a short distance from the house, j o come over. Will Honeycatt, in a ! it of anger, grabbed his shotgqn and an to the home of his father where le emptied a load of shot in his fakir's breast, death following instantly. Charles A. Cannon, of Concord, lominated iast week by the Eupublian state convention for the United States senate, has declined the nomijation. It is stated that Mr. Cannon vas not consulted about the nomina jpq aiiu tutu recwveu no tnnuiauun \ hat he would be named as the sensorial candidate. Marion Butler proposed the nomination of the Concord mill man, and his name was favorably receivde by the convention. Friends represented Mr. Cannon as in no sense a candidate, but their belief was that he would accept, if the Domination was unanimously tendered him. However, he does not seem to enter the political armia in opposition to the Democratic nominee. I The executive committee will now have to name some one" to fill Mr. Cannon's place on the ticket. Just who will be its choice is not known, but W. R. Chambers, of Marion has been spoken of, and is said to be favored by the committee. ki5.',; - . i . . UGA ily Newspaper, Devoted 1 E, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH C FUNERAL OF MRS. GREEK MONDAY Prominent Lady of Boone Succumbs After Operation in Charlotte Hospital * Regardless of the downpour of rain op Monday the large auditorium of the Baptist Church was filled to overflowing with people from the various parts of the county, assembled to pay their last respects to one of our choice ladies, Mrs. T. M. Greer, who died in Charlotte following ar\ operation last Thursday afteimoon. The funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. F. M. Huggins, and! Dr. J. D. Rankin followed with an j eulogy oil the life of the splefruiid lady, who had made her home in! Boone for nearly two years. The services, by request, were very short, at the close of which the remains were in charge of Foley & Evans, lo cal undertakers, who interred the body in the city cemetery. The burial services were also brief on account of the rain. Elder Baldwin pronounced the benediction. The floral offerings were profuse and beautiful, the entire grave having the appearance of a huge heap of flowers. Mrs. Greer's maiden name was Miss Addie Belle Huff, of Dorchester, Nebraska. She was married to Mr. Milton Greer of Watauga County on November 19, 1910. They resided in that state until about two years ago whon they decided tc return to Mr. Greer's native county. Deceased was highly educated, and a real teacher by profession. The first year she took work in the state 'Normal here, the second she was elected as one of the teachers in the Deep Gap Consolidated School and ier work there was so efficient that ?t the close of the term she was askid to sign a contract for the next ;erm, which she did. She was a real lynamo when it came to work. During all the rough weather of the past winter she drove to Deep Gap i'nd return, a distance About 24 piles each day and missed a very few rips there, ^n account of snow drifts nstead of cold weather. She was a ady who made friends quickly and leld them indefinitely. Surviving her in bet Nebraska home ire father mother, throe sisters and wo orotncrs. two OJ the sisters, Miss tana Huff ajnkl Mrs. Gortlon Jones :oming here for the funeral. A iius>and and three children, Virginia, Ulaine and Donald survive. No lady was ever held in higher stcem in Boone than was Mrs. Gree ; u.. her death caused genuine sorrow. 3ILL PROPOSING PARK INTRODUCED Washington, April 14.?Establish-1' gent of the f irst two extensive na- j ional parks hi the east was provided j or in a bill introduced in the house | oday by Representative H. W. Tem- j >le, Republican, of Pennsylvania, fo\-, owing receipt of a report transmitted i o the house and senate by Secretary i Vork favoring that action. Secretary Work's decision was bas*1 on a report by the Appalachian *ark commission which he had a^>>ointed to consider the whole matter. Che proposed parks are the Shenanloah. to be located in VinHnin ?1r?no he crest of the Blue Ridge raounair.s south of Foil Royal, and the Smoky Mountain national park along he boundary of the states of N /rth Carolina and Tennessee. The cornlined area of the two parks will he i little less than 2,000 square miles, he Smoky Mountain park comprisns about 1,100 and the Skenanioah a little less than 900 square niles. mm rwo SONS IN JAIL ON CHARGES OF HOMICIDE Jefferson correspondence WinstonSalem Journal: George Stike, of Bina, by a peculiar and pitiable coincidence has two sons in jail charged with homicide, one in Florida and one in West Virginia. Guy Stike is held at Beckley, W. Va., charged with the killing of J. Lillard Price, of Lansing, whose body, showing a bullet wound in the heed, reached Lansing Tuesday afternoon Price was killed in a brawal and besides young Stike, it is report ed that another man and a woman are being held, yielding investigation. Cicero Stike was arrested an carried to Florida on a charge of killing a fellow laborer on construction work there. It is stated that young Stike will plead self-defense. The killing was done with a shovel. Assistant Attorney General Frank Nash has advised the Pabst Corporation of Milwaukee that it had better omit North Carolina from its beer sales campaign unless it wants to present a test case to the supreme court. The Palist Corporation sent Mr. Nash a bottle with a request that the attorney general render an opinion as to whether sales would be permitted under the state prohibition law. Mr. Nash wrote that, in his opinion, the law would prevent the sale of 3.75 beer in the state. DEM i to the' Upbuilding of Norl AROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE Genteral News and Happenings From all Over the World Condensed For the Busy Reader Edward W. Browning:, wealth} New York real estate operator, 5", years old, was married Saturday tc Francis (Peaches) Heenan, 15, his second "Cinderilla Girl/' at Cold Springs, N. Y. Bidding for Muscle Shoals closed Saturday with seven proposals tc lease the entire property and two a part of it in the hands of the congressional committee which began thif week to study the offers to determine which one, if any, should be recomj mended for acceptance by congress. None of the bids were made public. The corn belt farm relief bill was approved Tuesday by the senate agriculture committee, but indications are that it is unacceptable to the administration. Secretary of Agriculf_?vJ i:--?V- * -J . uujt uaiuiuc, uuuiumg a legislative program in a letter to Chairman Haugen of the house agriculture committee, advocated creation of a federa! commission to aid farmers through the agriculture department and their own organizations, in marketing thir products. Rigid enforcement of dry laws and opposition to their modification were the keynotes sounded at the opening session in Washington Monday of the woman's national committee for law enforcement. The delegates assembled Monday for a three-day session. A message from President Coolidge and an address by Mrs. H. W. Peabody, of Beverly, Mass., chairman of the committee, formed the high lights of the opening session of the conference, at which a score or more of women's organizations was represented. United States Senator Smith W. Brookhart, Republican insurgent of iowa, was on Monday unseated in the senate in favor of Daniel R Steck. Democrat, by a margin of four votes. The vote, 45. to 41, came after a week of debate, which terminated in fiery arguments during the last hours of discussion. Sixteen Repub ncans joined the 29 Democrats in votunseat Rrookhart, overwhelming the Democrats, Republicans and one Farmer-Labor senator who sup- j ported him. Steck is Iowa's first Democratic senator since the Civil j war. Greatly augmented bj- the two oil | ship disasters in the Mississippi river j near New Orleans, traffic toll in 11 | southern states last week reached 65 dead and 256 injured, it is shown by j i survey conducted by the Associated | Press. The survey was of all'forms of traffic casualties, Nghway, rail- J road and river, including those by automobile. trolley, train, motorcycle, boat or otherwise. Louisiana's death toll was exactly half that of the entire south, that state's total injuries being 89, of which G7 were due to river, disasters^ The deaths by states follow: Virginia, 2; North Carolina, 1); South Carolina, 3; Georgia, 3; Florida, 5; Alabama, 2; Mississippi, I - T Aiiicionn QQ - A?lrnivc<?o A ? Ton nessee, 3; Kentucky, 5. Total, 65. Seven, men are dead as a result of a renewal of factional troubles at Herrin, 111., late Tuesday in connection with the hotly contested primary election, Company K, Illinois national guard, was ordered oat and arrived at Herein. Tuesday night. Since the trouble started early in the day troops had been guarding the homes of two alleged klan clergymen, the John Smith garage and the Masonic Temple, where the killings took place. Bitterness dating back to the time when S. Glenn Young was dictator of Williamson county, is believed responsible for the rioting. The most bloodshed was near the Masonic Temple where two carloads of alleged gangsters got out of cars and opened fire on klansmen. According to John Smith, klansman and garage owner, the first shot was fired at him about 2:30 p.m by a man he identified as "Blackie" Arms. Smith said he was standing in front of his garage talking with friends when the car containing the gangsters drove up. Troops arrived at 4 o'clock and thirty minutes later trouble broke out anew before they conld be rushed to the scene. Several were left dead 01 wounded near the Herrin Masonic Temple. Smith, following the attach, barricaded himself in his parage witi a relative and returned the fire, which then became general on Monroe street between the European hote and Smith's garage. The first casual ty, an unarmed man, was shot ii front of the. hotel. It is said that men than 500 shots were fired into the garage. With the arrival of more troops the situation became quie late in the afternoon. What To Do? "Give Marie a kiss Harry." "Nothing doing. I don't like her "Well do something quick?anj thing to stop bcr singing." ' 1 OCRA thwest North Carolina. 1926 PRESIDENT ON : SOCIAL PROBLEMS i i Coolidge Discusses World Tribunal Duarmame\nt Before Newspaper Men in Washington The press of the nation was urged to "create a noble and inspired pub i lie opinion" and to aid in developing . a spirit of justice and toleration by I President Coolidge last Thursday in laying the cornerstone of the National Press building, new home of the 1 National Press club in Washington, t Speaking before an audience of i Washington correspondents and newspaper editors and publishers not i only from many sections of the Uni: ted States but from Latin-America through the presence of delegates to the Pan-American congress of journalists in session in the national capital, the president restated the posi; tion of the government on international questions, including the world court, the league of nations and limitation of armaments. "While the United States has refrained from interfering in the political affairs of others by refusing to adhere to the league of nations," the president declared in his address, it has adhered to the world court that ' it may "take part in administering international justice becaur.e it affects us." The reservations laid down as a condition of adherence to the world court, the president asserted, "adequately safeguarded American rights and also tend to strengthen the in uciiciiuviice 01 tnu court. "Our country," he added, "has taken this step because it believed that it was the most practical method by which it couid exercise its great influence in establishing the principle of a region of international law under which disputes and differences would be adjusted not by force but by reason." As to armament limitation he said the American government was seeking it "by the only practical method" j but added that it could not be accom- ] plished without "an intellectual and moral disarmament." < Appealing for a spirit of toleration, < the president said that "race hatred, I [ class feeling, religious pcrsecutiotn, < however these may be exhibited, 1 I whether under a form of law or i ! through the force of public opinion i or even in defiance of law, have no I justification in reason and are dis- { ustrous in their consequences." 1 } YOUNC.KST CIVIt WAD VETERAN FOUND DEAD Nashville, Tenn., April: 14?Wil- 1 liam LiRard, 77, who at the last re- 2 union; was the youngest Irving: ConI federate soldier, was found dead at J I his home here at noon Sunday. Mr. Lillard*s civil war life teems with tragedy that has for a climax one of the happiest celebrations ever held in Rutherfomton county- When ? 1! years oiri, he answered the call to j arm- for his native hint! and enlisted in 3 863. He was assigned to cavalry duty in i Huhhard's brigade. Skirmishing in the Carolinas, the boy cavalrynuin received a wound from a bullet in his ; chest. Soon afterwards the war ended. Soldiers began to return, home, families were reunited, and the afterwar drama of the southland started But at the home of Colonel William G. Lillard, wealthy landowner influential citizen of Rutherfordt<m county, the tragedy of the war was emphasized when the little boy v/ho went away to enter the big fight did not return. Finally the family, reconciled that he had given his life to the cause, no longer looked for him. Then six months after the fighting ended the youthful soldier quietly returned. He had been in a hospital in the Carolinas, part of the time lingering on the edge of death. When the shock of his return was over, a vvivuiuLiuii ?nu j,i t rejuicing uc-| curred, people from all over the countryside attending. Smith Win* Over HcKinley Colonel Frank L. Smith, making his race for the Republican no nana tion for the Orated States senate, won over William B. McKir.Iey, incumbent, in the Illinois primary Tues day by about 150,000 majority. Col. ' Smith's supporters attribute his vic' tory to his opposition to. the United Sates adherence to the world court, : for which Senator McKinley voted. ' George E. Brinnan, running on a 1 wet platform, won the Democratic nomination for senator, piling up a vote three times the site of that cast ' for both of his opponents. 1 Two Aviators Killed ; Neil W. Abbott, of Rochester, N. Y., ! and Clarence W. Mix, of Durant, e Mich., attached to the marine base ' at Quantico, Va., were killed in an airplane crash near Kings and Queens Courthouse, Va., yesterday. Let the animals run out in the " open pasture some of these warm - nights, advise livestock workers -at State College. T HVE CENTS A COPY LUTHER BURBANK DIED SUNDAY Great Horticulturist Passes, Holding to Belief That There is No Hereafter Luther Burbank, withered by age, died at his home in Santa Rosa, Col., early Sunday amid the flowering fruits and blooms that he had created for mankind's benefit. The noted horticulturist passed on to the adventure of a hereafter in which he had no faith. Only a week before the cud, the great plant wizard had declared that he could not ouieve in a me alter aeatn. And as life ebbed away and he stood at the brink he did not falter in his convictions. Infirm and worn after years devoted to developing and guiding: plaixt life the controversy started by bis pronouncements on religion and reincarnation contributed to his last illness. The storm of protest came from religious leaders after Mr. Burbank gave out his statement declaring himself to be an infidel. His home vra? swamped with letters and telegrams condemning his stand. The stress he was subjected to in defending and explaining his beliefs brought on a nervous condition that his 77 years, could not withstand. Fortified by a vigorous examination, which had its roots as deep as the flowers and plants he tended, he put up 3. valiant struggle against his illness. Sir. Burbank always declared that Ms object in increasing the yield of plants was to better the condition _r e 11 - ui ui? xcuowinen ana tie died believing "we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good vie have done in passing through life." "If it has been a good life it has been sufficient," he held. "There is no need for another. Once here and gone the human lifle has served its purpose. "The universe is not big enough to contain all the human souls and the ather living beings that have, been lere for their short span. A theory jf personal insurrection or reincama;ion of the individual is untenable >vhen we but pause to consider the magnitude of the - idea." Recognition of the existence "of a jreat universal power" was admitted jy the horticulturist, hut he declared ie did not "even begin to comprelend." He said he was a "lover of Chrisl is a man and his works, but neverhciuss ho was an infidel then as I im an infidel today." STREET WORK IS NOW UNDER WAY Engineers of the state highway commission arrived in Boone Monday and as soon as the rain and mud would permit, the work of surveying I be new city street was begun. Un u?r f.nt- supurvision 01 uic suae highway commi^ion, J. A. Tompleton, a competent civil engineer with :? goocr corps of helpers have practically completed the preliminary surveys on the main city thoroughfare.. The firm of Weeks & Shell has a new steam shovel on the job today, and work is going forward rapidly in front of the E. S. Coffey property. The sidewalk at this point will be raised about four or five feet to make a grade here. The construction work is in charge of the Foster Company of Wilkesboro. It is expected that the work of paving Main street will be rushed through in a short period of time. Contracts have been made with the Cranberry Furnace Company to supply 800 cars of stone for the base of the concrete streets. The grading will require but a short time, and according to Commissioner Hanes, 22 days will be necessary for the actual concrete work, under favorable conditions. The water connections along the main street have all been made and in a few days sufficient grading will itaira kaaa rt f ? t?r\ v*fl tka aa^iioI uaic uccn uviic ov may m?- ?? yum work of paving may be started. STATE'S REVENUE NOW SHOWS BIG SURPLAJS Raleigh. April 14.?The report of : the state auditor and state treasurer Tor the month of March, shows that a surplus of S3,217,386.04 has beetn created out of a "deficit" or "cash overdraft" of $1,238,087.15 oh. the first day of March. During the month the collections totaled $5,516,450.33 while expenditures totaled $1,060,977.14. After the overdraft existing at the first of the month and the disbursements had been subtracted from the receipts, the general fund shows a handsome balance. This balance probably will enable the state to operahe safely within its income during April, May and June for in those three months there will . be some collections of late income taxes and other taxes which are due, cv> .. ... . .iariE,!. .-'..s,
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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